It is from yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun.
Tsutomu Saito
It is Red Darkness, the endless state of terrorism.
On October 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin turned 68 years old.
At the same time, it was the anniversary of the death of Kholitkovskaya, a reporter for the Novaya Gazeta (new newspaper), who continued to expose the brutal repression of the Chechen people under Putin’s regime.
The attack took place in broad daylight in front of his home in Moscow, but the real culprit has remained unknown for 14 years.　　
Fukuda Masumi, author of The Assassination State of Russia: Chasing the Missing Journalist (Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd.), writes: “Some said it was either someone who buttered up Putin or one of his minions, who planned it as the perfect birthday present for him.　
On August 20, Alexei Navalny, 44, a leading anti-Putin activist, was taken to a German hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok variety, which is considered to be used the military, and lost consciousness.
The case is now amid international finger-pointing.
For this reason, the noble face of Politkovskaya, whom we met only once in Moscow, is even more vividly remembered.　
The Abyss of Chechen Oppression　
The “darkness in Chechnya” runs too deep. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian military launched two military incursions in 1994 and 1999 to prevent the North Caucasus and Chechnya from gaining independence, kidnapping, torture, murder, and other forms of brutality.
It estimated that it killed at least 100,000 people in the war.
Before the second war, mysterious apartment bombings in Moscow and elsewhere killed about 300 people, but the Russian authorities attributed the incidents to “Chechen terrorism” and pushed ahead with the war.
President Vladimir Putin appeared on the shoulders of this victory.　
Meanwhile, Litvinenko, a former FSB lieutenant colonel who had been exploring the FSB’s involvement in the bombings, was forced to flee the UK and was poisoned with radioactive substances polonium-210 in November 2006, when he was 44 years old.
Gareth Jones. In a desperate undercover interview, he was a British reporter.
He debunked the Holodomor (Ukrainian for “mass death by starvation”) that Stalin had artificially set up in the Soviet Union’s largest grain-growing region, Ukraine 1932 and 1933. This true story was made into a film by the Polish master director Holland and arrived in Japan this summer under the title Red Darkness on Stalin’s Cold Earth.　
British Reporter Assassinated in Manchuria.　
The Holodomor’s elimination of “class enemies and rich farmers” in conjunction with forced agricultural collectivization and the brutal requisitioning of grain from the peasantry led to over 3 million people’s starvation deaths. Some historians have decried it as “starvation terrorism. In March 1933, Jones sneaked into the eastern Ukrainian town of Stalinot (now Donetsk) on a freight train from Moscow, evading the harsh surveillance network, and witnessed “horrific scenes” including cannibalism by families. In the end, he was detained and deported to Britain. Still, he attracted attention when he became the first person in the West to expose a cross-section of the Holodomor, similar to Hitler’s Holocaust (Jewish genocide), to British and American newspapers.　
Jones, who had met with Hitler alone soon after his appointment as chancellor, also turned his attention to the Orient and spent a brief period of time in Japan in 1934.
However, on August 12, periods before his 30th birthday, it shot him to death in Manchuria, where he was visiting for interviews.
The theory that the Soviet spies were responsible for this is strong.
Five years later, Stalin had his most significant political rival, Trotsky, slaughtered by a private agent in Mexico, where he had gone into exile.
Stalin tracked and killed those who try to expose the dictatorship’s darkness and oppose him to the ends of the earth.
Even Mr. Putin said, “We will wipe out terrorists when we corner them in the lavatory.　
Stalin to Xi Jinping.　
The “red darkness” of the suppression of certain ethnic groups that originated with Stalin is now directly connected to China, as it was under Putin.
It is a chain of national terrorism.
President Xi Jinping has introduced a “Chinese communal consciousness” that erases the language, religion, customs, and culture of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
He has begun to declare the strengthening of assimilation policy unabashedly, and the concentration camps are said to be expanding.　
Glennko Andriy, a Ukrainian international political scientist, living in Osaka, Japan, pointed out.
‘Russia and China share values of aggression, expansionism, human rights violations, a politics of fear, and even the right to kill people basically,’ 　
With the Trump administration in “all-out confrontation” mode with China, both Putin and Xi have arbitrarily altered the constitution, paving the way for a lifetime dictatorship.
I suppose it’s because if you leave, you won’t be able to sleep with your pillow high enough to see when the ghosts of the many, many famous and unnamed dead who have been erased by the “red darkness” will turn on you.